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WPA — Works Progress Austin — incubates new theater
The formal arts season may be winding down, and Fusebox left everybody a little breathless giving Austin a mass infusion of new performance work. But on Saturday, Salvage Vanguard’s project Works Progress Austin unveils the work of writers, directors, filmmakers, dramaturges, comedians, and musicians who were given a two-week opportunity to incubate and experiment with new work.
Three short plays-in-progress will be unveiled.
8 p.m. May 23. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road. $10 www.salvagevanguard.org
‘A Brief Narrative on the Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits.’
By C, Denby Swanson. Directed by Sonnet Blanton with puppets by Connor Hopkins.
Characters live on the edge of the imagined and the real in ‘A Brief Narrative.’ Mare, a surrogate for her infertile sister Kitty, has just given birth to her first…. Rabbit. There will be 24 additional rabbits after this. How are we made? By whom?
‘The Collapse’
By Kirk Lynn. Directed by Thomas Graves.
‘I have to collapse. I have to collapse. I’m gonna put everything I
believe into this last collapse. Tomorrow I’m going to walk out my door
believing nothing. Tomorrow I’m going to wake up very early. Tomorrow
I’m going to wake up very early. I don’t want to sleep at all. Tomorrow
I’m going to wake up not believing anything at all. I’m going to go to
bed when I collapse. When I collapse at last. I keep a record every time
it happens. I keep a record every time it happens. Every time it
happens, I record it. I want to know the difference between collapse and
collapse.’
‘Guest by Courtesy.’
By Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson.
‘A “tea,” even though it be formal, is nevertheless friendly and inviting.
One does not go in “church” clothes nor with ceremonious manner; but in an
informal and every-day spirit, to see one’s friends and be seen by them. A
smaller room is preferable, too much space with too few people gives an
effect of emptiness which always is suggestive of failure.’
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